Nashville foursome the Cordovas dial up the Flying Burrito Brothers vibes for “High Feeling,” the intoxicating leadoff track of their latest album Destiny Hotel. It’s breezy and wistful, summoning the anything-is-possible outlook of a vision quest in the desert. And for good reason: the band wrote the song in the striking expanses of Todos Santos, Mexico, while boning up on the works of the mythologist Joseph Campbell.
Neither a pandemic nor this week’s high-stakes election drama was on their minds then, but “High Feeling” can’t help but feel tailored to the moment.
Neither a pandemic nor this week’s high-stakes election drama was on their minds then, but “High Feeling” can’t help but feel tailored to the moment.
- 11/5/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Tennessee-based band Cordovas have announced plans for their new album Destiny Hotel, which follows the group’s 2018 Ato Records debut, That Santa Fe Channel. Set for release via Ato on October 16th, the album’s easygoing lead single “High Feeling” is out now.
Infused with the same sun-kissed energy that powers the Allman Brothers Band’s “Blue Sky,” “High Feeling” is as unhurried and amiable as it gets, featuring perky splashes of piano and bright Hammond B3 organ. “You give me that high kind of feeling/I don’t want to come down,...
Infused with the same sun-kissed energy that powers the Allman Brothers Band’s “Blue Sky,” “High Feeling” is as unhurried and amiable as it gets, featuring perky splashes of piano and bright Hammond B3 organ. “You give me that high kind of feeling/I don’t want to come down,...
- 8/5/2020
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
As the longest-running member of Cordovas, songwriter Joe Firstman has carried the harmony-heavy, jam-friendly torch of the Grateful Dead’s American Beauty era and the Allman Brothers’ golden years into the world of modern-day Americana. He and his bandmates are cut from old-school rock & roll cloth: a group of pot-smoking, guitar-playing long hairs who live together on the Nashville outskirts, spread across a property that includes a barn rehearsal space, a house and a bedroom-worthy Rv. The band’s new release, That Santa Fe Channel, introduces that sound to a wider audience,...
- 6/3/2019
- by Robert Crawford
- Rollingstone.com
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